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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:50:55 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/The-hardest-part-about-programming-is/019d08ddd273409cbef79ece01680e41#019d08ddd273409cbef79ece01680e41CplCarrot73https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - WP7 $199 Wow!!! then i saw the UK PricesIf it helps here is the current UK price breakdowns

I always wondered why they chose a minus sign. Now I know that they didn't! lol

If the system menu is there for mouse-less window manipulation, then I think it can safely be removed. What computer doesn't have a mouse these days?

In fact I had to use this just the other day. The Cisco VPN client window was open on my second monitor. When I disconnected that monitor it still believed that was where it was and was therefore invisible.

I had to do a Shift + Right click on the task bar then use the arrow keys to move it back onto my laptop screen.

figuerres, this sounds like part of what I'm looking for... but I'm still not sure where to look. What do you mean by 'lookup the help on it'?

For my SQL reports, I use visual studio, and post them to the SQL Report Server we host. Our users aren't going to use Visual Studio...

I think the tool you are after for the SQL Server Reporting Services stack is the SQL Server Report Builder. It is a Click Once application that lets users build reports based on a defined data model and then either publish them to a users area in Reporting
Services or, if permissions allow to the public reports area.

I have to demo solutions to clients such as SharePoint, Exchange and Dynamics CRM, all of which are either 64bit only or are moving that way. The ability to connect to remote machines from boardrooms is rarely an option so I have to rely on virtual
machines running on my laptop.

Microsoft desperately need to give a clear statement of direction on how they see their virtualisation platforms going. Otherwise we will be forced to abandon the very good VM demo decks they provide in favour of building our own on other platforms.

A modern DB (eg: Drizzle) is going to delegate as much responsibility to the kernel as possible. This makes the code simpler, and this easier to optimize. That's just how it is.

I recall that major enterprise database engines like SQL Server have the ability, and for very high end specific performance , the desirability to store their data on unformatted raw disks. However, the lack of OS support means that this is not a recommended
except where every ounce of performance is required. Otherwise it is easier and cheeper to throw a couple of Gb ram at the problem.

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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:24:28 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/522547-It-is-time-Move-the-filesystem-off-of-disks/afa1241cb0474b708de19deb00d583f5#afa1241cb0474b708de19deb00d583f5CplCarrot85https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - Bill Gates is on TwitterWell @BillGates has been listed by Twiter as a verified account. But he does seem to have a slightly eccentric set of people he follows. I wonder if his daughters had an input to the list!

I don't get why Ch9 is even in a webfarm. I know plenty of massively high-traffic websites (we're talking top-1000 sites) that don't employ any kind of load-balancing, they just run a single (but high-powered) server for running PHP/whatever and another
server for static content and the database (which might be on a third server if DB load is high enough).

So why is Channel9 overengineered?

I am also in this camp. I refer you to Dr Herbies ignored thread
on the Feedback forum.

I can't comment on the posting bug as I am not smart enough to pass coment on most of the threads. However, I would note that the poor alignment of the sign in/log out links and the fact that the video controls are largely hidden does not reflect well on
a site that is supposed to be a flagship developer forum.

On the video note, I often want to to watch the videos to remind myself just how dumb I am, but if I want to watch a video I need to start it, wait for the first word and then pause it for 30 mins so that it caches enough to watch. I dont believe this is
just my bandwidth as videos from www.TED.com etc stream just fine.

Repo here as well on the Brian Beckman lecture. Controls start half way up then drop down. Video starts - go full screen and end up with a black box.

Also it seems to loose the cache as a side effect.

Win 7 Build 7100

NO Visual Studio or beta stuff

Silverlight Version 3.0.40818.0

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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:10:17 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Feedback/508909-Fullscreen-button-not-working-for-me-on-2-pcs/fc2e8717ee2b471f97d99dea00fb9af3#fc2e8717ee2b471f97d99dea00fb9af3CplCarrot11https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - Experts ExchangeAs I recall if you use one on the many plug-ins that let you change your user agent to that of the Google Spider then the problem is solved. Not that I could ever suggest doing something like that as I am sure that is totallly against all sorts of T&Cs and
would probably end up with black helecopters hovering over your house ond strange Π chars appearing on your web pages.

I've found Belkin to be pretty awful, as have many friends. Anecdotal, of course, but I don't think I've seen anyone recommend them either. The setup UI was pretty poor (but may have improved now; I've avoided the brand since) and I had problems like the
entire thing locking up, requiring a hard reboot, when my then-laptop (HP/Compaq FWIW) used the Wifi and transfered a large amount of data quickly.

Not sure what to recommend, though... I'm using a Thompson/Alcatel router at the moment which my ISP gave me... it's *almost* good, except that it's full of bugs (reboots itself if you do too much UPnP or VPN stuff... sigh). I went looking for a replacement
and decided it was less irritating putting up with my current router than it was finding the best new one.

There are so many to choose from but every one seems to be missing some feature (e.g. all the NetGear ones seem to have 100mbit hubs like it's still the 1870s or something).

It's also made more complex by some manufacturers (NetGear especially) releasing new and unrelated routers with the same name as older ones. Makes it difficult to know exactly what you are buying, given that many online stores sell old/discontinued stock.

It boggles my mind why so many routers are still so buggy these days. Surely this stuff should be down pat by now. It's not like they do anything _that_ complicated or difficult to test, or different between vendors/models.

Re the setup. I am slightly less scared of this as having been designated "the parent who can" I have spent many hours installing free routers for other parents so I have wrestled with many variations of this theme!

The Netgear ethernet -V- Gigabit is less of an issue as my machine to machine connection is limited and bound by wireless speeds.

The buggy +product version variation issues are exactly why I posted this. Any reviews seem to be based on a specific release and it is hard to trust comments that may be out of date compared to more recent firmware updates!

My Netgear DG834g R1 wireless ADSL router has started to throw machines off its wireless network. This seems to be mostly Windows 7 machines (which I have most of) but also hits Vista machines.

In the absence of any diagnostics I am building a business case for my bosses (Wife and work) to buy a new one.

My eye has been drawn to the Belkin N+ Does anyone have any views on this or any other solution?

My requirements are:

Must have:

ADSL Router built in. (I have more than enough wires as it is)

Wireless - Range over speed. 97% of the traffic on my network is to the internet where I get 2Mbs max but I need to have access some 20m (60 ft) away

Nice to have

NAS connection - Seems you can plug a USB hard drive to the Belkin and it acts as a NAS device but a slow one.

Guest Access - Allowing temp users to access the internet but not the network

Firewall

What sort of solution do you all run in support of all those sexy desktops that are posted?

Many thanks

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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:50:25 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/475038-New-wireless-router-any-ideas/475038#475038CplCarrot3https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - Bill Hill is he staying or going?In my feed reader today was a post from Bill Hill's blog saying he was leaving Microsoft but on his site the post has gone. It would be a shame if MIcrosoft have lost him.

From the post I have
<Snip>
For some time, I have been preparing by setting up my network and communications. You’ll find me on FaceBook and LinkedIn, as well as on my website and this blog.

As you all know, I’m a Man With A Mission. I have no intention of becoming a beach bum. I always said that I would probably go back to writing, which I did professionally for almost as long as I worked in the software industry...]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/468225-Bill-Hill-is-he-staying-or-going/468225#468225
Wed, 06 May 2009 16:54:13 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/468225-Bill-Hill-is-he-staying-or-going/468225#468225CplCarrot16https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSTech Off - Copying to network share results in out of space errorHiI have encountered a similar error claiming insufficent resources. I narrowed it down to the AV software trying to scan the file as it was passing through and getting swamped. Could this be involved?

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Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:26:30 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/TechOff/459650-Copying-to-network-share-results-in-out-of-space-error/c2946621f0344ed2b19e9deb00043589#c2946621f0344ed2b19e9deb00043589CplCarrot4https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - A little wish for live searchIf you like that then can I suggest you try Google Suggesthttp://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
This will offer suggestions as you type. It is the single feature that stops me from setting any other page as my home page.]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/443383-A-little-wish-for-live-search/e0bc5efeb70b47a180b89dea010ce5b1#e0bc5efeb70b47a180b89dea010ce5b1
Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:53:13 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/443383-A-little-wish-for-live-search/e0bc5efeb70b47a180b89dea010ce5b1#e0bc5efeb70b47a180b89dea010ce5b1CplCarrot5https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - Channel 9 Guy's brother found on Brighton beachRumour has it he was so dispondant at not being able to go to PDC he partook of too much Dutch courage and fell into the sea.

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Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:43:54 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/437517-Channel-9-Guys-brother-found-on-Brighton-beach/437517#437517CplCarrot1https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - IE8 and S+SI have to wonder if the shadow of anti-trust is looming ofer such a decision. If MS implemented this in the default IE then how long would it be before Google went running off to teacher screaming "Not fair" its locked into a MS platform.(remember Adobe
and the Office 2007 PDF feature) By leaving it off and also releasing a Mesh add on for this they dont get into the hair pulling fight in the playground.]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/427639-IE8-and-SS/9655ec732c294f32a0ab9dea00fe2b4e#9655ec732c294f32a0ab9dea00fe2b4e
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:30:24 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/427639-IE8-and-SS/9655ec732c294f32a0ab9dea00fe2b4e#9655ec732c294f32a0ab9dea00fe2b4eCplCarrot7https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - what happened to the Erik Meijer videoIt was on the front page and I started watching. I then miss clicked and moved on but when I came back it was gone. It is still there but at this url:http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=374141

Weird]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/260374-what-happened-to-the-Erik-Meijer-video/260374#260374
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:39:10 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/260374-what-happened-to-the-Erik-Meijer-video/260374#260374CplCarrot2https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - What were you doing?Well I remember it well. I was working on the planning team for the security for the
UK Labour Party (the government) Conference in Brighton.

This was being attended by all the Government as well as visiting politicians. Ever since an
unfortunate incident
with Maggie this has always had a lot of security.

I was standing outside our offices adjacent to the conference centre and hotel when one of the search teams that had been doing searches in the conference centre came in and said a plane had just crashed in New York. Thinking it was a light aircraft accident
we carried on working until almost every scrambled egg (Senior Officer) flooded in.

We then worked 52 Hrs almost non stop turning a medium to low threat conference into a high threat one. In the process trying to keep the brass from overreacting.

We did manage to point out that a
Destroyer off the coast was not applicable to the threat being posed and that a
24 hr Combat Air Patrol in the same place as one of the major flight paths into the UK might not be much help!

Still I do have one fond memory, we were staying in a hotel in Brighton along with a number of Army personnel who were helping with some of their specialist skills they had learnt over the water in Northern Ireland. These were stereotype squaddies with short
cropped hair and muscles. One night they decided to try the night life in Brighton. What they didn’t know was that Brighton has a VERY active gay scene and they walked into one of the
biggest gay bar
in Brighton. They were back in the hotel in 10 mins! It must have been the “Blue Oyster Bar” scene for real!

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Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:57:56 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/257543-What-were-you-doing/e94af9b0e5a34bc9ae249deb001570f3#e94af9b0e5a34bc9ae249deb001570f3CplCarrot30https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - reinstall xp proGranted its not XP but we just had a server motherboard and RAM replaced on a W2K3 server and didnt have to do anything with Windows so there is a lot of scope for hardware updates.]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/256276-reinstall-xp-pro/b2b30f65421649be96619dec0093a231#b2b30f65421649be96619dec0093a231
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:50:10 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/256276-reinstall-xp-pro/b2b30f65421649be96619dec0093a231#b2b30f65421649be96619dec0093a231CplCarrot4https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - Facebook - a thoroughly modern addictionNice opinion piece in the
Telegraph on how all these social networking sites can be addicted. Seems
Mr Scoble has been hooked. I particularly like these 2 quotes:

Facebook's administrators have access to a database about who knows who, how they know them, their sexual behaviour, favourite movies and what time they are chill: a database of which the Stasi or the Mukhabarat could only have dreamed.

Sooner or later, privacy be damned, the damage Facebook causes to the British economy in lost productivity may have to be offset by the sale of its data to marketing companies.

I did get pulled into LinkedIn but I have too many other addictions and this one did not get a look in against the competition]]>https://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/255546-Facebook-a-thoroughly-modern-addiction/255546#255546
Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:45:11 GMThttps://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/255546-Facebook-a-thoroughly-modern-addiction/255546#255546CplCarrot8https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/CplCarrot/Discussions/RSSCoffeehouse - Question: Starting New Threads in Coffeehouse About Videos. Why?From my time stamps it looks like Eagle beat the video by some 6 hours.